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 74, flag-ship of Sir Thomas Troubridge, whose melancholy fate he escaped sharing, by being placed on board the Fox frigate, Captain the Hon. A. Cochrane, to prevent his remaining idle while the former ship was undergoing repair at Pulo-Penang, after getting aground at the entrance of the Straits of Malacca. When about to sail from Madras for the Cape of Good Hope, Sir Thomas wrote to his young friend as follows:

“Dec. 23d, 1806.

“In the event of my other letters not reaching you and Captain Cochrane, I have requested him to discharge you to Madras, and from thence, if I am sailed for the Cape, you must follow with the convoy and join me. I regret that, having served your time, you are not now on the spot, as I have some vacancies. Your sincere friend,

(Signed)“.”

Mr. Delafosse next joined the Concorde frigate. Captain John Cramer (now Sir Josiah C. Coghill); and, on his return home the York 74, Captain Robert Barton, in which ship he was present at the occupation of Madeira, by the naval and military forces under Sir Samuel Hood and Major-General Beresford, December 24th, 1807. In February following, he was appointed acting lieutenant of the York; and on the 9th of April in the same year, confirmed. In 1809, he assisted at the reduction of Martinique and Walcheren. In March 1811, he exchanged into the Cerberus frigate, Captain Henry Whitby, on the Mediterranean station; and in January 1813, being then first lieutenant, (and serving under Captain Thomas Garth,) commanded her boats at the capture of an armed trabaccolo, deeply laden with corn and flour, bound to Corfu. In March following, he cut out another vessel of the same description from under a battery near Brindisi ; and a few days afterwards, assisted in dismantling a tower and destroying a battery and several vessels, in a creek between the towns of Bari and St. Vito. On the 11th of April 1813, two boats of the Cerberus, in company with three others belonging to the Apollo frigate, took temporary possession of Devil’s Island, near the north entrance of Corfu, where they